A/N: Alright guys, because you asked for it...here it is. Once again it's KakaOC, this'll...hint a little bit more at it though. Maybe not as much as Never Leave, but it's there if you look.

This will not be the last one in the series because I've got number 5 done, and I'm working on number 6! All while working on my Sonic the Hedgehog stories too! So if you would like to see more, keep on reviewing as you always have.

"OW, CRUD!"

Kakashi Hatake grew a surprised expression on his face. His hair was slightly mussed up from training all day. He spun around and stared, watching his student jump up and down, screeching in pain.

The student's name was Ai Raiokachi. She wore an orange cloth zip-up jacket with a white t-shirt underneath. Her pants matched her shirt, with them being running pants. She had lightning-blonde hair, which was pulled up in a ponytail, and deep blue eyes. Her bangs fluttered around her face since they were too short to stay pulled up. Her ninja headband was wrapped around her head under her bangs. On her back she wore a sword, which was contained in its sheath.

Ai was a chunin. She was assigned to Kakashi along with the rest of her squad after she graduated from the Konoha Academy. Kakashi was done training Naruto and Sakura, so he decided to take on Ai's team. The kunoichi had risen to the chunin rank approximately 3 months ago.

"Are you alright?" Kakashi called, putting a troubled look on his face. Ai clutched her pinky toe, which was exposed due to her sandals. "What happened?" the jonin asked again, walking over to her.

Ai growled. "I…"

"And please," Kakashi interrupted with a sheepish gaze. "Try to refrain from using obscenities."

"Fine…" Ai sighed through her teeth. "I stubbed my…darn toe whenever I was recovering from your technique."

Kakashi couldn't help but chuckle at his student's bad luck. "Can you put weight on it?" he asked, wanting to make sure the injury wasn't serious before he laughed some more.

Ai curiously looked at her pinky toe, which was beginning to swell. "I dunno. Let's see." She cautiously put her sandal down on the ground beneath her, and was about to take a step before she shot straight up in the air from pain.

"NOPE! NOPE!!" She screamed, hopping around on one foot.

Kakashi raised an eyebrow and held her steady. "Let me see," he instructed. Ai moaned and showed him her toe. It was indeed throbbing, red, and beginning to swell. The jonin rubbed the back of his head. "You just can't stop hurting your feet, can you?" he giggled. "First your ankle, and now your toe."

Ai smirked. "Well, I can either be a good ninja or I can be coordinated. Which will it be?"

"I'll take the latter," Kakashi joked. Then, in a graceful manner, he swept Ai up into his arms. The kunoichi crossed her arms in a huff.

"Alright, now you're just showing off," she snapped. Without another word, Kakashi began walking to Konoha's hospital.

***

"Why does this seem like déjà vu…?"

Ai crossed her arms and glared at her toe. It was now wrapped in a wooden splint.

Kakashi, who was standing beside her outside the hospital, put a hand on her shoulder. "At least you can walk this time," he put in. Ai snorted and attempted to walk, but that only ended up with the split cutting into her other toes. If it wasn't for Kakashi's hand keeping her down, she would have shot up again.

"N-not really," she choked out, wincing in pain.

"Hey!"

Kakashi and Ai both looked up to see another figure walking towards them. It was none other than Might Guy.

When Ai was a baby, she was left on Guy's door step. Since then, the two have lived together, forming a 'father-daughter' relationship. Although, if you ever referred to Guy as Ai's father, she would knock you out to show you otherwise.

"What happened?" Guy asked worriedly. He had seen Ai's toe as soon as he arrived. Ai crossly glared off in the other direction and blushed. She was too embarrassed to tell Guy about her clumsiness when she was supposed to be the cool one.

Kakashi chuckled as he watched Ai pout. "Oh, she ran into a tree whenever we were training," he replied. Guy raised a bushy eyebrow and studied Ai's face.

"A tree?!" he demanded. "You can take out 3 Suna guards whenever they accuse you of trespassing but you get tripped up by a tree?"

"Look, just shut up alright?!" Ai yelled back. "I was too busy trying to recover from Kakashi-sensei's attack, and I was too focused to notice the tree. Happy?"

Guy opened his mouth to say something, but shut it when he realized something else. "You attacked her?!" he demanded to his rival, who was looking very confused at the moment.

"Attacked? More like sparred with. We were TRAINING, Guy. Don't you ever spar with Lee?"

The jonin in the jumpsuit snorted. "Of course I spar with Lee. I would never hurt him, though."

"Look, don't blame Kakashi-sensei just because I stubbed my toe," Ai said angrily. "It wasn't his fault; it was mine."

Guy sighed, a little relieved that at least Ai was safe. "Fine. Just…be a little more careful, OK?"

"Meh, noise, noise…" Ai trailed off.

***

"So, you really can't walk…again?"

Ai and her best friend, Naruto Uzumaki, were seated on a tree branch in Konoha. Naruto had befriended Ai when the both of them were fairly young.

Ai crossed her arms and closed her eyes.

"I can walk on it," she corrected. "It's just…very, very unpleasant."

Naruto grinned cheekily. "Yeah, I saw you hobbling around today," he chuckled. "I can't believe that it was just two weeks ago that you sprained your ankle…and now you can't even walk again."

Ai gnawed on her lower lip. "This really, really sucks."

The two shinobi in orange sat in silence for another moment. Then Naruto spoke up.

"Hey, I noticed you've been hanging out with Kakashi-sensei more often," he said, curiosity flickering in his gaze. Ai glanced over and shrugged.

"So?"

Naruto cocked his head to the side. "Yeah, but why? I mean…well, I guess I had better be the one to tell you this…"

Ai was the curious one now. "Tell me what?"

"There's a rumor going around…that you and Kakashi…are…y'know…"

"WHAT?!"

Ai roared as she hopped up and stood on the tree branch. She started ranting.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Kakashi-sensei and I aren't dating! What the heck?! I mean, crap, we're like…what? 13 years apart?! He's almost TWICE my age! Why the heck would people even get the IDEA that we're goin' out?!"

Naruto stared at Ai in bewilderment. He had never heard her scream that loudly. "Umm…Ino told me and Sakura."

Ai clenched her teeth together. "Ino…!"

"N-now, don't do anything you'll regret in the morning," Naruto said nervously, sheepishly smiling and grabbing Ai's arm. The kunoichi's face was crimson with anger.

"Oh, I won't regret anything…but Ino is going to regret EVER spreading rumors about me whenever she's at Judgment!"

Naruto gulped and gripped Ai's arm tighter. "Yeah, but come on Ai…who else is going to keep Choji company? Just stay here…I'll take care of Ino for you, OK?"

Ai snorted and plopped down again next to her friend. "Fine," she said crossly, folding her arms and closing her eyes again.

"Your toe was throbbing, wasn't it?"

"…yeah."